Minter & Pollak, LC

Extremely helpful and knowledgeable estate attorneys! Highly recommend! They are a well organized and very thorough team.

Until my mother-in-law passed away in 2017, we had little knowledge about estate planning. I saw a DIY Estate Planning Kit online that supposedly offered all the paperwork we would need to create our estate plan. It included power of attorney, advanced directive for health care, instructions to complete a transfer on death for our home and a will. After we completed the forms, we had them notarized and submitted paperwork to Sedgwick County to have our house transferred upon our deaths. We felt comfortable with the paperwork we had completed, but as the years passed, we worried that Kansas laws could have changed and the generic DIY forms could be challenged and create problems for our survivors. I saw an advertisement on Facebook for Minter and Pollak and shared it with my husband. We felt that we had nothing to lose with a free one-hour consult, so we made an appointment and took our DIY forms to see if we were on the right track. We met with Creath Pollak, and she reviewed our forms and noted that several elements were missing. She started asking us questions and took copious notes to gain insight into wishes for an estate plan. The appointment hour passed by quickly, but one notable suggestion that she made was for us to make sure that we had not only listed a spouse as beneficiary on accounts at banks and insurance companies, but also secondary beneficiaries. We contacted our out of state life/home/auto/annuity insurance company that we have done business with for over 40 years. We discovered that a person unknown to us was listed as a son and sole secondary beneficiary. Without Creath’s guidance we would never have checked to see if our beneficiaries were listed correctly. We would highly recommend Minter and Pollak as estate planners who listen carefully and work diligently to learn about clients to create a plan that provides confidence that our final wishes will be fulfilled.

Very knowledgeable. We were very pleased.

My husband and I recently worked with Creath for our estate planning. She was very knowledgeable and easy to work with. The entire staff was friendly and professional. I will be recommending Minter & Pollak to all my friends and family.